I would imagine that, since  it’s all computery, they can resync the dialog if they need to. But then, I also don’t know what I’m talking about.

Not unexpected. The Harry Potter franchise is massive, and the majority of normal people aren’t terminally-online and have no idea of, nor do they care about, the opinions of the original author.

Is it so hard to believe gamers at large don’t care about JKR? Or whatever she’s up to/or doing? It’s pretty obvious why it did well, so sticking your head in the sand while claiming it whiffed with critics is a weird flex.

I played a decent amount and eventually lost interest. I wish it were a bit more “i’m a student going to school” and a bit less “i’m the chosen savior”. For someone who has played many many action adventure open world games, it felt too much like games i’ve already played.

Yeah, you are immensely overestimating the influence this site would have had on sales in general. The average person isn’t paying the slightest attention to news sites (or blogs, in this case) or JKR in general, and the Harry Potter universe already had a massive fan base. I don’t believe Kotaku would have swung the…

I love how this “news” article is totally full of opinions. Rather enjoyed the Harry Potter game and quite a few of my friends also did. Can’t wait for the sequel to come out so it can totally burn people again when it sells like crazy.

Re-reading Kotaku’s review of the game- outlining how terrible it supposedly is, and the long debates around it in the comments section is hilarious in light of the fact that the game is actually well liked and apparently a lot of fun- is pretty hilarious these days. Kotaku’s obsession with messaging over actually…

Yet everyone here will continue burying their heads in the sand and insist that the twittersphere is indicative of reality.

It was a damn good game and had one of the most amazing player “housing” systems (via the Room of Requirement) in any modern game- it’s kinda sad that it was in a single player game.

Most critics who reviewed the game in good faith gave it a decent score. We get it you wanted the game to fail

Yeah sure, 84/85 metacritic but “wasn’t a hit with critics” 😄

I really liked it, it was fun and very pretty, and it was clearly made with love for the source material and franchise. As someone that grew up with the books, and then the movies as they came out, it was a fun open-world romp for about 40-50 hours, I got my money’s worth. 

It may not have been VERY good, but it was PRETTY good, controversy aside.

goodbye flappy bird 2.o

(Admittedly, somewhat cynical) translation: I got my bag, and the longer this remains available for purchase, the more liable I am for the obvious and blatant copyright infringement the game made its fortune on.

Which, to be clear, I don’t really begrudge. I doubt this dude thought this game would ever have the…

The risk is effectively zero (worth noting that tea solids are, in fact, anti-microbial), and this kind of institutionalized overcaution is both ridiculous and detrimental.

Never let reality get in the way of a clickbait headline. 

This is actual nonsense. Sun Tea is brewed before any sugar - necessary to fuel any bacterial growth - is added. Unsweatened tea is simply not a viable growth media. There is one professor that cites one patent (not even a scientific study) that is regularly quoted here. The patent is public record, there was no…

Is it?

Similar to how Clue’s alternate endings accentuated the 1949 card game